University of Nebraska – Lincoln: Returning to Babel: Jewish Latin American Experiences and Representations

The Norman and Bernice Harris Center for Judaic Studies & the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures

Sunday – Monday, April 19-20, 2009

Schedule

Sunday, April 19, 2009
12:00  – Registration and refreshments

1:00 – 2:45     Session I
Jewish Latin American Experiences: Past and Present
Raanan Rein, Tel-Aviv University.
«Ethnicity and Diaspora in XX Century Latin America: The Jewish Case.”
Sergio Waisman, George Washington University.
“The Jewish Latin American Writer and Tradition: The Case of Sergio Chejfec.”
Edna Aizenberg, Marmount Manhattan College.
“Should We Bury the Jewish Gaucho? A New Gerchunoff for the Twenty First Century.”

3:00- 5:30 Session II
Literary Representations
Joanna Mitchel, Denison University.
“Hacer la América: The Creative Imagination of a Syrian Jewish Mexican Identity in Saed’s Triple crónica de un nombre.”
Ariana Vigil, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
“Jewish Characters, Subalternity and the rewriting of the Foundational Narrative in Francisco Goldman’s The divine Husband.”
Debora Cordeiro Rosa, University of Central Florida.
“Diáspora, Exilio e identidad en algunas obras judío-argentinas.”

 6:00 – 8:00 Movie Screening: 18J

Monday, April 20, 2009
9:00-10:00  – Special Presentation
Borges and the Kabbalah: Seeking Access
Saúl Sosnowski, University of Maryland
Mirta Kupferminc, Visual Artist, Argentina.

10:15-11:45 Session II
Jewish Experiences in Argentina and Brazil
Adriana Brodsky, St. Mary’s College of Maryland.
“Educating Argentine Jews: Sephardim and their Schools, 1920-1960.”
Alejandro Dujovne, UNC-Grupo de Estudios Judios.
“El pueblo de los libros: El libro como objeto de indagación histórica de la vida cultural judía en Argentina.”
Carolina Rocha, Southern Illinois University.
“Cinematic Jewish Self-Representations in Contemporary Argentine and Brazilian Films.”

12:00-1:30 Session IV
The Notion of Otherness and the Question of Integration
Nelson Vieira, Brown University.
“Without Identity: The Jewish Ethical Transcendence of Being for the Other in Writings by Brazil’s
Clarice Lispector.”
Lourdes Barranco, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
“Posibles jugadas en el juego de la integración judeoargentina.”
Dayana Soto y Caballero de Galicia, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
“Otredad en El árbol de la Gitana.”
Nebraska Union
14th & R Street
Lincoln, NE

 Program organizers Dr. Jean Axelrad Cahan and Dr. Amalia Ran
Symposium Sessions and Movie Screening are Free and Open to the Public